What drives compliance with COVID-19 measures over time? Explaining changing impacts with Goal Framing Theory.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study which factors drive compliance and how the evolving context in society -virus fluctuations and changing government measures - changes the impact of these factors. Extant literature lists many factors that drive compliance - notably enforcement, trust, legitimacy. Most of these studies, however, do not look across time: whether a changing context for citizens changes the impact of factors driving compliance. In this study, we use Lindenberg's Goal Framing Theory to explain the dynamics of these drivers of compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. We formulate hypotheses for pro-socialness, trust in government, observed respect for rules, rule effectiveness, rule appropriateness, fear of COVID-19 (severity and proximity), opportunit

SUBMITTER: Six F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8661714 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature